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Henry James

"What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form."

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"What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form."

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"Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life."

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"You are nothing but what you think. That is existentialism."

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"Human you are, and your religion, Humanism."

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"I am yours but you are free of mine.My love is yours but I don't want any return"

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"Philosophy is the dance of conscience on a stage called the mind."

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"Everything in your mental life proceeds in proper neurological order. If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror."

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"Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves."

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"To be a philosopher you do not need to be a professor but you do have to love and understand nature."

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"Minutes turn into hours that add up to days amounting to weeks that become months melting into yearsaccumulating for decadesto pile up for centuriesand ultimately form minutes again-just on a grander, divine scale."

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"Philosophy is so interesting and intriguing that it is almost boring not to be a philosopher."

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"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."
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"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."
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"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
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"The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?"
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"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
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"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
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"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals."
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"Deep experience is never peaceful."
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"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."
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